tapir

See also: Tapir and tapír

English
A 19th-century watercolour of a Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings at the National Museum of Singapore
A tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
  • Homophone: taper

Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)

  1. Any one the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtaː.pir/, [ˈtaː.pir]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs, diminutive tapirtje n)

  1. tapir
    Synonym: boskoe

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ta.piʁ/

Etymology 1

From Middle French tapir, from Old French tapir, borrowed from Frankish *tappijan (“to close, shut in, lock up”), from Frankish tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô.

Verb

tapir

  1. (reflexive) to hide
Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of tapir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle tapissant
/ta.pi.sɑ̃/
past participle tapi
/ta.pi/
infinitive
simple tapir
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple tapissant
/ta.pi.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present tapis
/ta.pi/		 tapis
/ta.pi/		 tapit
/ta.pi/		 tapissons
/ta.pi.sɔ̃/		 tapissez
/ta.pi.se/		 tapissent
/ta.pis/
imperfect tapissais
/ta.pi.sɛ/		 tapissais
/ta.pi.sɛ/		 tapissait
/ta.pi.sɛ/		 tapissions
/ta.pi.sjɔ̃/		 tapissiez
/ta.pi.sje/		 tapissaient
/ta.pi.sɛ/
past historic2 tapis
/ta.pi/		 tapis
/ta.pi/		 tapit
/ta.pi/		 tapîmes
/ta.pim/		 tapîtes
/ta.pit/		 tapirent
/ta.piʁ/
future tapirai
/ta.pi.ʁe/		 tapiras
/ta.pi.ʁa/		 tapira
/ta.pi.ʁa/		 tapirons
/ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/		 tapirez
/ta.pi.ʁe/		 tapiront
/ta.pi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional tapirais
/ta.pi.ʁɛ/		 tapirais
/ta.pi.ʁɛ/		 tapirait
/ta.pi.ʁɛ/		 tapirions
/ta.pi.ʁjɔ̃/		 tapiriez
/ta.pi.ʁje/		 tapiraient
/ta.pi.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present tapisse
/ta.pis/		 tapisses
/ta.pis/		 tapisse
/ta.pis/		 tapissions
/ta.pi.sjɔ̃/		 tapissiez
/ta.pi.sje/		 tapissent
/ta.pis/
imperfect2 tapisse
/ta.pis/		 tapisses
/ta.pis/		 tapît
/ta.pi/		 tapissions
/ta.pi.sjɔ̃/		 tapissiez
/ta.pi.sje/		 tapissent
/ta.pis/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — tapis
/ta.pi/		 — tapissons
/ta.pi.sɔ̃/		 tapissez
/ta.pi.se/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2

From Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapir m (plural tapirs)

  1. tapir

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Polish

Noun

tapir m anim

  1. tapir

Declension
declension of tapir
singular plural
nominative tapir tapiry
genitive tapira tapirów
dative tapirowi tapirom
accusative tapira tapiry
instrumental tapirem tapirami
locative tapirze tapirach
vocative tapirze tapiry

Portuguese
tapir (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ta.ˈpiɾ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ta.ˈpi(ʁ)/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

  1. tapir

Synonyms

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ta‧pir

Noun

tapir m (plural tapires)

  1. tapir

Synonyms
  • (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Venezuela) danta
  • (Bolivia, Northern Argentina) anta
  • (Ecuador) vaca de monte
  • (Honduras, Nicaragua) danto
  • (Mexico) ante
  • (Panama, Colombian Pacific Coast) macho de monte
  • (Paraguay) mboreví
  • (Peru) sachavaca
  • (Southern Mexico) anteburro

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish tapir (“tapir”), from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

Noun

tapír

  1. tapir
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